¹ accent noun

• a way of pronouncing words that occurs among the people in a particular region or country
• greater stress or force given to a syllable of a word in speech
• a mark (such as ˈ or ˌ) used to show the part of a word that should be given greater stress when it is spoken —called also accent mark

² accent verb

• to give special attention to (something)
• to say (part of a word) with greater stress or force